Fourteenth Generation

799. Amanda ROOT was born in 1840 in Antis Township, Blair County, PA.^96,97,98,158 She appeared in the census in 1840 in Antis Township, Blair County, PA.¹¹⁰ She appeared in the census in 1850 in Antis Township, Blair County, PA.⁹⁸ Amanda appeared in the census in 1860 in Sandusky Township, Richland County, OH.¹⁵⁵ She died before 1910 at the age of 70 in Richland County, OH.

Amanda ROOT and James H. BAILEY were married on 6 April 1865.^96,157 James H. BAILEY was born on 4 July 1830 in Shelby, Sandusky Township, Richland County, OH.¹⁵⁷ "Bailey, James H., farmer, P.O. Corsica; was born near Shelby, in this county on July 4,1830; his father removed from Adams Co., Penn., to Hamilton Co., Ohio, in 1819, and thence to this county in 1826, and, with his sons and other pioneers, aided in clearing up the forest and making old Richland what it now is.

James H., when quite young, had earned enough by hard labor to purchase 76 acres near his father's farm, which he improved, and after the death of his father in 1869, bought the old homestead; in 1871 he sold both farms and paid $12,750 for the elegant farm of 229 acres on which he now resides in Sandusky Township. His improvements on the farm have made it one of the best in the township, and he is acknowledged to be one of our most successful farmers.

He was married April 6, 1865, to Miss Amanda, daughter of the late John Root, who then lived on the farm adjoining the one now occupied by Mr. Rally. Mr. Root died Oct. 21, 1869."

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